A Messianic Believer’s Commentary.

Please read and consider – which day does G-d call “the Sabbath”? Which day should we honor as He asked us to?
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B’reshit 2:2&3
G-d stopped His work of creation and rested. He blessed the seventh day and sanctified it
sanctify = (v.) To set apart for sacred use; consecrate.
(v.) To make holy; purify.
(v.) To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow: sanctify …set it apart from all other days.

Exodus 16:30
So the people rested on the seventh day. The people rested on the seventh day…
(they had been given the Sabbath since Creation)
Exodus 20:10
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 23:12
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus 34:21
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Exodus 35:2
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Leviticus 23:3
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
convocation = con`vo`ca´tion 1. The act of calling or assembling by summons.
2. An assembly or meeting.
Leviticus 23:8
But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. (After the cross – the sacrificial laws are no longer valid)